As can be seen in the table above, there is a wide difference between the best and worst teams at home. The Packers/Steelers lead the way with a 72.16% win rate while the lowly Browns have a win rate of just 38.82% at home - a difference of 33.34% between the top and bottom teams.

Interestingly, a total of six teams are below 0.500 at home. Clearly, home field advantage isn't a guarantee for success.

But to get a clearer picture, we decided to compare each teams home win % to their, win % as a visitor and their win % overall. This gives us a better sense of home field advantage as we can take into consideration the win rate of the team overall.

We narrowed our focus down to the last 10 years, 2002-2011 when the NFL moved to the eight division format.

Team

Overall Games

Overall Wins

WIN%

Home Game Wins

Home WIN%

Away Game Wins

Away WIN%

Home WIN% - Away WIN%

49ers

160

69

0.4313

44

0.5500

25

0.3125

0.2375

Bears

160

82

0.5125

49

0.6125

33

0.4125

0.2000

Bengals

160

71

0.4465

41

0.5190

30

0.3750

0.1440

Bills

160

65

0.4063

39

0.4875

26

0.3250

0.1625

Broncos

160

86

0.5375

48

0.6000

38

0.4750

0.1250

Browns

160

56

0.3500

31

0.3875

25

0.3125

0.0750

Buccaneers

160

74

0.4625

42

0.5250

32

0.4000

0.1250

Cardinals

160

65

0.4063

44

0.5500

21

0.2625

0.2875

Chargers

160

96

0.6000

55

0.6875

41

0.5125

0.1750

Chiefs

160

74

0.4625

45

0.5625

29

0.3625

0.2000

Colts

160

111

0.6938

59

0.7375

52

0.6500

0.0875

Cowboys

160

86

0.5375

48

0.6000

38

0.4750

0.1250

Dolphins

160

70

0.4375

38

0.4750

32

0.4000

0.0750

Eagles

160

99

0.6226

50

0.6250

49

0.6203

0.0047

Falcons

160

87

0.5472

50

0.6250

37

0.4684

0.1566

Giants

160

88

0.5500

42

0.5250

46

0.5750

-0.0500

Jaguars

160

76

0.4750

46

0.5750

30

0.3750

0.2000

Jets

160

80

0.5000

46

0.5750

34

0.4250

0.1500

Lions

160

47

0.2938

32

0.4000

15

0.1875

0.2125

Packers

160

99

0.6188

55

0.6875

44

0.5500

0.1375

Panthers

160

79

0.4938

42

0.5250

37

0.4625

0.0625

Patriots

160

123

0.7688

67

0.8375

56

0.7000

0.1375

Raiders

160

56

0.3500

31

0.3875

25

0.3125

0.0750

Rams

160

56

0.3500

35

0.4375

21

0.2625

0.1750

Ravens

160

94

0.5875

61

0.7625

33

0.4125

0.3500

Redskins

160

65

0.4063

36

0.4500

29

0.3625

0.0875

Saints

160

90

0.5625

45

0.5625

45

0.5625

0.0000

Seahawks

160

81

0.5063

51

0.6375

30

0.3750

0.2625

Steelers

160

105

0.6604

58

0.7342

47

0.5875

0.1467

Texans

160

65

0.4063

39

0.4875

26

0.3250

0.1625

Titans

160

86

0.5375

47

0.5875

39

0.4875

0.1000

Vikings

160

77

0.4813

48

0.6000

29

0.3625

0.2375

Average

80

0.5001

46

0.5724

34

0.4278

0.1446

Max

123

0.7688

67

0.8375

56

0.7000

0.35

Min

47

0.2938

31

0.3875

15

0.1875

-0.05

In the above table, we find a lot of interesting statistics for teams over the last 10 seasons - with one of the biggest being that every team in the NFL, except for the New York Giants, has a greater winning % at home compared to their away winning %.

Clearly, teams benefit from playing at home. On average, NFL teams win rate of home games are 14.46% higher than away games. But teams do range quite a bit in how they play at home vs. away.

Ravens lead the way in Win % difference between home and away with a 35% difference between their win rate at home and their win rate away.

Patriots lead the way in all three categories with a Win % of 76.88% overall, 83.75% at home and 70.00% away from Foxborough.

Lions have the lowest Win % overall, winning only 29.38% of their games due in great part to their away winning rate o'f 18.75%.

Surprisingly, mainly because of the well known "Black Hole", the Raiders are tied with the Cleveland Browns as having the worst at home Win % - winning only 38.75% of their home games.

With 31 of 32 teams in the NFL having better home records than away with an average difference of 14.46%, home field advantage is clearly a powerful force in the league. But not every team benefits from it in the same way.